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| The
OrangeLine Online, Vol. 2 Issue 10 November 3, 2005 An electronic newsletter for alumni and friends of West Virginia Wesleyan College www.wvwc.edu |
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Homecoming
is West Virginia Wesleyan's richest tradition, linking together the
College, the alumni, and its current students. For three days during
a beautiful fall setting on Wesleyan's campus, alumni returned to
their Home Among the Hills.
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The
Homecoming weekend (Oct. 21-23) started Friday morning with the Founders
Day Convocation. Joseph S. Beeson led the induction ceremony of the six
new members into Wesleyan's
Board of Trustees -- Helen Davis Bell, Ellis Conley '73,
John Esaias '71, Lloyd Jackson, Mara Linaberger Watson '58, and Linda
Mitchell Wellings '92. John C. Wright,
a 1948 graduate and former Wesleyan professor, gave the address, entitled
"Liberal Arts Education in the Information Society." Following the singing
of "My Home Among the Hills," President William R. Haden presented the
Rhododendron Award to Harold
T. Elmore. Scott Bellamy,
professor of business and advisor for the SIFE program, received the award
for exemplary teaching.
With the
rain holding off during the afternoon, over 60 Wesleyan alumni and friends
were able to take to the links for 18 holes of golf in the James
K. "Johnny" Myers Golf Classic. Nightfall gave way to nine
then class reunion dinners that evening. The classes of 1960,
1965,
1970,
and 1975
celebrated their reunions with a reception and dinner at the Stonewall
Resort at Weston, the Class
of 1980 gathered at the home Michael and Susan Saturday
morning, alumni were treated to a rainy Homecoming Parade down Main
Street featuring over 250 members of the Wesleyan community. During
halftime of the Wesleyan-Shepherd University football contest, Joshua
Bennett and Jacqueline
Murphy were named the 2005 Homecoming King and Queen. Wesleyan
inducted three individuals and two teams into its Athletic
Hall of Fame. Inducted this year were Marvin Culpepper
'51, J. William (Bill) Grimes '63, Larry Rhodes '69 and the 1989 and
1990 men's soccer teams. Saturday The West Virginia Wesleyan Alumni Association was proud to recognize five Wesleyan graduates and friends of the College during the annual Homecoming alumni banquet on Saturday night. The Alumni Association honored P. Darrell Neufer '84 and Chaplain (Colonel) James W. Daniels Jr. '71 with the Alumni Achievement Award; Michael J. Aloi '80 and Susan Miller Aloi '80 with the Wesleyan Service Award; Danette Ifert Johnson '90 and Janine L. Roberts '99 with the Young Alumni Achievement Award, and Robert J. Wallace with the Extra Mile Award. The weekend concluded with Frank Fowler III '70 being the featured speaker at the Homecoming Chapel Service Sunday morning in Wesley Chapel |
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